Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20991, Timothy Dodd, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Down.
Dodd, Timothy Susannah
W 20991
CONTENTS

Section 1061
Susannah Dodd
wife of Timothy Dodd
Con
who died on the 7 July 1828 of Hartford Co. in the State of Conn. who was a Pr. V. Serjt. in the company commanded by Captain Seymour of the by in the Conn. line for Private 10 mo. 33.33 1/3 Serjt. 1 " 44 days 5.66 2/3 $39.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 39 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of June 1837 and sent to Jesse Charlton, East Windsor Hill, Hartford Co. Ct.
Annuity to the 4th of March '37. 234.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4/1/37. 19.50
$253.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 — }
Recorded by D. Brown
Vol. 1 — Page 77
Clerk

Widow Susannah Dodds
Application

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of July 4 th A.D. 1836 State of Connecticut, Hartford County, ss Hartford In this 25 th day of March 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford, in sd Hartford County Widow Isaac 54 years of age Dodd, a resident of said Hartford, in said Hartford County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on oath declare; That she is the widow of Timothy Dodd, late a resident of said Hartford; who was a soldier in the army of the revolution.
That the said Timothy Dodd, entered the American army as a for water soldier, in the year 1775, in the first part of May, and went with the Army to Bunker Hill & performed a term of duty until the middle of December a period of seven months, And again he entered the services in the year 1776, in Capt. Israel Seymour's Company, and was given the term of 12 weeks. And again he entered the said Army about the 1 st of August 1777, in Capt. Jonathan Housworth's company went to the taking of Burgoyne, & performed a term of three months & returned in November 1777. And again he entered the service in August 1779 in Capt. Ebenezer Darrow's company of Connecticut troops at New Haven he staid until November, there were with him James Bundy, Asa Bruce, Stephen Brimley, Ensign Willard Hildreth, Elias Hemenway, Edward Dodd, all of Hartford, but they are all dead, and she does not now know of a surviving witness. This will furnish the best proof in her power.
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She further declares, that she was married to the said Timothy Dodd, at Hartford aforesaid, by the Rev. Nathan Strong on the 8 th day of January, A.D. 1778. whether there is any record of the marriage in the public records she does not know but will enquire. Their house was burned & all their record in May 1782. Her said husband died at said Hartford on the 7 th day of July 1828. And she still remains his widow, and has never again intermarried; her age is 80 years all which will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Swa.
Susanna Dodd
Sworn and subscribed the day and year before mentioned viz March 25 1837
Before said Probate Court
And the said hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the appropriate interrogatories that the said John Timothy DODD was a revolutionary soldier, & served as is stated in the foregoing declaration & that the said Susannah Dodd, his surviving widow was married to him before his last period of service in the army of the revolution, and that the said Timothy DODD died at said Hartford on the 7 th day of July 1828 & left the said Susannah Dodd his surviving widow & that her she has never again married.
J Henry Seymour Clerk of said

Probate Court hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Court in the Matter of the application of Widow Susannah Dodd, for a Pension under the 3 d Section of the Act of Congress of July 4 th A D 1836, And I further certify That Giles Ellsworth Esq, before whom the Certificate of Lemuel Brooke was taken, was at the taking the same, & for six months preceding a lawful Justice of the Peace for said Hartford County, & that the signature of said Giles Ellsworth purporting to be his, is his genuine signature, & I further certify that before the signing & oath the following alterations were made, viz, the figure in 1779, the last figure altered from 8 to 9, and John Anderson erased, & Timothy Dodd inserted. and in the date on the 1 st page 6 is erased & 7 inserted so as to read 1837
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name, & affix the Seal of said Court of Probate at Hartford aforesaid the day & year first named, viz on the 25 th day of March 1837.
Henry Seymour Clerk

State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss Hartford
In this 25 th day of March A D 1837, Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford in said Hartford County James Wells, a resident of said Hartford, aged 81 years a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath Declare, That in the time of the Revolutionary War, he was well acquainted with Timothy Dodd, & Susannah Cross, both of said Hartford: That they were married to each other by the Rev Nathan Strong, pastor of the first Congregational Church & Society in said Hartford in the forepart of January 1778. That he the deponent was present at their Wedding: he has lived near Timothy Dodd & his wife since the War, until said Dodd's death, for he died several years since, in this Town, & his Widow still lives in my neighborhood, & has never again intermarried. I well remember the fact that said Timothy Dodd's dwelling house was consumed by fire, on the day of the General Election at Hartford in the year 1782, with all its contents this was in the month of May in that year.
James Wells
Sworn to and subscribed before said Court on the day & year first mentioned
Attest Amy Seymour

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
M.E.C.
July 13, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Timothy Dodd ---  N. 20991 a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1775 7 mos. Pvt. Lt. Ezekiel Scott Col. Wylllys Conn.   1776 3 mos. Pvt. Israel Seymour Not stated. Conn.   Aug. 1777 3 mos. Pvt. Jonathan Wadsworth Not stated. Conn.   Aug. 1779 3 mos. Pvt. Ebenezer Barnard Not stated. Conn.  
Battles engaged in,
Surrender of Burgoyne.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Hartford, Conn.
Date of application for pension, by widow, March 25, 1837.
Residence at date of application, of widow, Hartford, Conn.
Age at date of application, of widow, not stated.
Remarks: Married Susannah Cross Jan. 8, 1778, and died July 7, 1828.
Mr. Horace Dodd,
Very respectfully,
265 Washington St.,
Acting
Boston, Mass.
Commissioner.

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Chicago, Jan 18 th 1900.
Rev. Henry Clay Evans Comdr Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir You very kindly responded to my request ask? for memo of what the pension records showed as to Timothy Read , an ancestor of mine. — wh, you have given me the record of one of that name in New Jersey. — The one I asked for was the Timothy Read of Hartford Conn — the pension as I understand it, was applied for by his widow — For accuracy in the family history, I want to know whether the Rev's service was on the part of the father or son, both bearing the same name — Will you kindly give me a list of the Hartford soldier? So greatly oblige
Yours very resp't F. J. C. C. C. 3957 Edis Ave

DODD'S D
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AGENCY,
No. 265 WASHINGTON STREET,
BOSTON, July 19 th 1885
file Hudson #20991 on Hudson file
To the Hon the Commissioner of Pensions. Washington.
Dear Sir:
Yours of 13 th inst in reply to mine asking for the military history of my grandfather Wm Timothy Dodd of Hartford Conn is at hand, and as you mention no charge for expense of furnishing the same permit me to thank you for myself and others, for your kindness in sending me the official information wanted.
Yours very respectfully
Grace Dodd
W 9 N

D DODD'S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AGENCY,
NO. 265 WASHINGTON STREET,
BOSTON,
July 6 th
1885
To the Hon The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir
I am desirous of obtaining official information from your department respecting my Grandfather Mr Timothy Dodd of Hartford Conn. who is reported to have taken some part in the War of the Revolution, and am also informed that after his death, his widow, (my Grandmother) received a pension from the U. S. Government up to the time of her death. Any facts which you have in record, which will bear out the above statements which you can furnish me, will greatly oblige me, as well as many others, who are much interested. and any expense attending this I will gladly pay for, soon as I know the amt. Awaiting Your reply I am
Yours very respectfully
Grace Dodd

Moore Mel.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20991
Susannah Dodd Widow of Timothy Dodd Sergt Rev War
Act: July 4 th 36
Index:—Vol. 14 , Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]
July 13 93 H. S. 6 Horace Dodd. 265 Washington St. Boston.
Feb 9-1900 Heirs to Fred M. Steele Chicago Ills.

Wm Dood
1775 7 mo. at Mass. w. Anna Galsin
76. +2.24 left Israel Seymour - Compt.
Nov 77 3. 12. 24. Madswalk. w. Ellsworth.
~ 79 "E Barnard 1. Nov. Compt. cut from age 1. Nov 79
Marrid Jan 1778
10 —
1 mo. 4 days. to Seymour roll from 9th Oct 79
13. 24 1 mo. 4 d. Sept.

Letter in Sissannah J Dodes Application March 1837

East Windsor Hill Post office Connecticut. March 23 5 1837
Sir. I hereby transmit the application of Widow Susannah Dodd, for a pension under the act of July 4 th A D 1836. Section 3
Doctor Strong's records of Marriages if he kept any, are entirely lost: for proof of which permit me to refer you to the certificate of the Rev Joll Hawes, successor to the Rev Nathan Strong; sent with the papers of Widow Abigail Sheldon, of Hartford, Widow of James Sheldon, which appli- cation has been granted.
I am Sir, very respectfully Your Obed t Servant. Jesse Chearltown.
James L. Edwarde Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

22 June Depe Charette ref 5 Mrs Dodd Leonard
Lucanna, widow of T. Dodd Fug: 1m. 4d. Pm: 10m.
$39: 3/4 per m.
united J. P. Colborne Esq.
Commissioner of Revenue, Washington D.C.

East Windsor Hill
Hartford County Connecticut.
Sir, Yours respecting the application of Susanah Dodd, Widow of Timothy Dodd of Hartford is received. Mrs Dodd, being a resident of Hartford, & being acquainted both with Capt Ebenezer Barnard & with Capt Israel Seymour felt confident that her husband had performed a tour of duty with them both: the muster roll shows she was mistaken in regard to the time of the service in Capt Barnard's company.
Timothy Dodd is confidently believed by several aged persons of his acquaintance as well as by his widow to have been in the service in two or three other tours but they cannot state time & place with so much precision as to support a claim; and Mrs Dodd will therefore accept of what you offer in your letter viz 10 months as private & one month & 4 days as sergeant. I am respectfully yours J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

Timothy Dodd ✓
Conn. W. 20991
A pay-roll of Capt. Israel Seymour's co. (or of a part thereof) from Aug. 9 to Sept. 14, 1779, has been removed from this case to be forward- ed to the War Dept.
M.R.
APR 10 1911
Sent to War Dept. Jan. 16. 1913

Lend Drake for Timothy Dodd
Timothy Dodd
57

I Amos Dabin of the town & County of Litchfield Conn aged 81 years being duly sworn do depose & say that on the 8 th day of May 1775 I enlisted for 9 months into the American Army in a company commanded by 1 st Lieut Ezekiel Scott, 2 nd Lieut Cooper & Ensign Smith, which company was called Col. Willys's company, he being the commanding officer of said company superior to Lieut Scott. I think Col. Willys commanded the Regiment, which was in the body of men commanded by Gen. Spencer. Timothy Dodd then of Hartford Conn was a private soldier in the same company — said company joined the American Army near Roxbury in Massachusetts, in the forepart of June 1775 & some time before the Battle of Bunker Hill. The company was raised in the State of Connecticut & assembled at Hartford & organized there about the first day of June 1775 & remained there embodied about 8 days when we marched to said Roxbury. While at Roxbury & its vicinity we were engaged through the summer & fall in mounting guard, erecting fortifications & continued so employed till the 8 th day of December 1775 when the company was dismissed. I knew said Dodd well. His mess was in the tent next to mine. And I therefore personally know that said Dodd joined the company aforesaid at Hartford, marched with it to the vicinity of Boston & continued to serve as a private soldier therein till the company was dismissed as aforesaid.
Dated at Litchfield Dec 2 nd 1830
AMOS DABIN

State of Connecticut } ss Litchfield Dec 2 nd 1835 Litchfield County }
Personally appeared Amos Galfin to me well known to who is entitled to full credit & made solemn oath to the truth of the forgo- ing deposition by him subscribed
Before me Geo. C. Woodruff Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut } ss Litchfield. Litchfield County }
I Origen S. Seymour Clerk of the County Court of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Geo. C. Woodruff is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified; and that the signature to the above certificate which purports to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court this 2 nd day of Decem- ber A.D. 1836
Origen S. Seymour Clerk

State of Connecticut Hartford County. ss Windsor
In this 19 day of November 1836, Personally appeared before me Elias Ellsworth Esq, one of the Justices of the Peace for said County Samuel Drake, a resident of said Windsor Aged 82 years, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare, That he was well acquainted with Dorothy Dodd, formerly a resident of Hartford in the County of Hartford, aforesaid. That he served in a Company belonging to the Army that captured Burgoyne, in the year 1777: That deponent, and said Dodd, found the Company under the command of Capt Jonathan Wadsworth of said Hartford; we set out from home on the 17 th day of August 1777, & marched to Albany, thro Norfolk in Conn, & thro Great Barrington in Mass. from Albany we went up to Stillwater, & on the 19 th day of September 1777 we had our first action with the enemy, our Capt was mortally wounded in the first action, he was removed as far as Albany where he died. Our Company was then com- manded by Lieut Orson Phelps, and on the 7 th of October we fought the second Battle; Gen Gates & Arnold, then had the command of our forces, & Col Cook commanded our regiment. & after the surrender of Burgoyne, our Compa- ny took the charge of a detachment of fifty of the prisoners, and conducted them to Hartford & delivered them up, on or very near the last of November 1777 the day of the month he does not exactly remember, but has always considered it as the period of three months

& a half; and, I think, that in my application, under the law of 1832, the commissioner in granting my pension called it a period of three months and a half; the said Timothy Dodd was with us thro' this tour & performed his duty faithfully.
Samuel Drake
Sworn and Subscribed, the day and year above mentioned viz the 19 th November 1836.
Before me Giles Ellsworth Justice of the Peace

Susannah Dods Application Cont.

I William Whitman, Clerk of the Town of Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut hereby certify, That I do not find any entry of the Marriage of Timothy Dodd, & Susannah Goss, in said records, under any date, & I further certify that previous to the year 1820, the entry of Marriages in the said records are very few in comparison to the number of Marriages celebrated in said town, So that no prejudice is created against the claim of any persons that they were married at a given time from their being no entry of it in the public records.
Hartford Town & County State of Connecticut March 25 th 1837
W. Whitman, Clerk & Register of Town State of Connecticut Hartford County District of Hartford 1837
On this 25 th day of March 1837 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford aforesaid William Whitman who has signed the foregoing Certificate & made solemn Oath to the truth of the same, & he is a credible person aged 74 years & he is Town Clerk & Register of said Town of Hartford.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the Seal of said probate Court the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Harry Deyonour Clerk

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office
I William Field Comptroller of Public accounts for the State of Connecticut hereby certify That I found

Comptrollers Office.
I William Field Comptroller of Public accounts, of the State of Connecticut hereby certify, That Capt Israel Seymour is credited & United States charged for his account rendered in Col o Chesters Regiment 1776 & for transporting prisoners to Massachusetts & War is charged for Capt Israel Seymours pay roll Coast guards New Haven £1803 11 9 11 11 1
And Captain Ebenezer Barnard is credited acct rendered for his company of guards at New Haven £4645 11 16 11 5 1 And Capt Ebenezer Barnard is credited in Houshells receipts for 76 Militia Service from April to Nov r 1779
And Leger A page 39
Journal Nov 17 th 1779 Capt Eb n Barnard for B y acct rendered for his company guards at New Haven £4645 11 16 11 5 1
Given at the Comptrollers Office in Hartford this 25 day of March 1837 W m Field Comptroller